Sontag is an IEEE Fellow,
an AMS Fellow,
a SIAM Fellow, and
a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control.
He has been Program Director and
Vice-Chair of the Activity Group in Control and Systems Theory
of SIAM, and
member of several committees at SIAM and the
AMS,
including Chair of the Committee on Human Rights of
Mathematicians of the latter.
He was awarded the
Reid Prize in Mathematics in
2001, the
2002
Hendrik W. Bode Lecture
Prize
and the2011
Control Systems Field Award
from the IEEE,
the 2002 Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research from Rutgers,
and the 2005 Teacher/Scholar Award from Rutgers.